VSAN on iThinkVirtual™

Nested vSphere Home Lab Series

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 20:37:53 -0400

Intro

Hey there! I’d taken a hiatus from writing as my personal life got in the way…got married, had a child, and changed employer(s), just to name a few!

NSX-T Home Lab - Part 2: Configuring ESXi VMs

Mon, 21 Jan 2019 22:11:56 -0500

Intro

Welcome to Part 2 of my NSX-T Home Lab Series. In my previous post, I went over the installation and configuration of a Sophos XG firewall for my nested NSX-T Home Lab. In this post, I will cover the setup and configuration of the ESXi 6.7 VMs.

Creating a Single-Node VSAN

Mon, 02 May 2016 14:00:54 -0400

Creating a Single-Node VSAN

Many of us homelab enthusiasts tend to build “whitebox” systems from spare PC parts and a few internal hard drives for local storage that we’ve either ordered or had laying around in order install ESXi and run a single-node lab environment. VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) enables the ability to build a local SAN environment utilizing the local hard drives in the host. The only downside/caveat is that you need a minimum of (3) ESXi hosts in a cluster to enable and configure VSAN. Bummer!